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Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson (2002)

Directed by Jim Wolpaw

Overview

Hundreds of scholars and biographers have tried to explain the life and work of Emily Dickinson, but the famously reclusive poet remains an enigma. In LOADED GUN: Life, and Death, and Dickinson, stumped filmmaker Jim Wolpaw uses a decidedly unorthodox approach to create a documentary about the writer whose beautiful, haunting and cryptic poetry has never quite squared with her reputation as a sensitive spinster. Wolpaw’s efforts to illuminate this ethereal subject - more than 150 years after her death - yield some hilariously frustrating results.

Length 60 minutes

Actors

Billy Collins | Leslie Dill | Leslie Fleming-Mitchell | Julie Harris | Nicole Jesson | Dan Lombardo | Polly Longsworth | Lisa Perkins | Alan Powers | Michele Proude